The Great Salt Lake is simply drying up due to the terrible management of water in the West and this is a very real environmental disaster in the making. Days before Utah lawmakers are set to convene, dozens of researchers are calling on them to...
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One of the incredibly depressing realities of climate change has been the rapid decline of the sunflower sea star, as well as the ochre sea star, former stars of the.
We need some good news. This is some. For the first time in over 100 years, a gray wolf has been spotted in Giant Sequoia National Monument in southern California,.
Well this would highly welcome. If President Biden wins a second term, his climate policies would take aim at steel and cement plants, factories and oil refineries — heavily polluting industries that have never before had to rein in their heat-trapping greenhouse gases. New controls...
When interest rates control the pace of wind turbine construction, the problem should be obvious. Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has for years been doing preliminary work for what would.
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze.
The issues around the king salmon in Alaska is something we see around the world over and over again. Basically, what happens when a natural resource economy supporting many livelihoods run up against declining totals and the collapse of the ecosystem also using those resources?...
Saturday afternoon seems like a good time to talk about the thing liberal communities care the most about--the complexity of natural resource politics. In this case, I wanted to highlight.
People--scientists yes, but also anthropologists, environmental historians, activists, and others--have debated for some time whether we are living in the "Anthropocene," a new era of geological time defined by what.
One thing I've found interesting marrying into a gigantic Irish family and thus talking about Ireland with them and going to Ireland is the idea of the beauty of the stark Irish landscape. My wife, for example, thinks the grass slopes of Irish hills is...
You think you know pretty much everything about American environmental history (remember that this is my training, not labor history) but then you read something like this and it kinda.
President Biden has created the third major national monument of his administration, this time in the Castner Range outside of El Paso. With Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada named last.